Aidy Boothroyd gave a glowing appraisal of the attacking variety within his Cobblers side after watching them win their first away game of the season.
Town ran out 1-0 winners at Dagenham & Redbridge thanks to Adebayo Akinfenwa’s 50th-minute header.
The result lifts Boothroyd’s men to seventh in the npower League Two table, with a home game against Chesterfield on Saturday the next fixture.
“We knew this was going to be a difficult game, especially with the energy we had put in on Saturday and the nature of that game,” said Boothroyd, whose team issued the perfect response to last week’s 1-0 loss at Fleetwood.
“They are a tough team to beat here and they make you work for everything you get but I thought we had some good attacks in the first half.
“I always felt like we were more likely to score and I thought we deserved the result.
“He (Akinfenwa) had a very good game, he was great at leading the line and Alex Nicholls looked very good playing off him.
“We have a variety now where we can play the two big ones together or get wide people involved and I was really pleased with this result.”
Town lost Ben Harding to injury after just seven minutes at Victoria Road, and the nature of the problem will be assessed by the club’s medical staff on Wednesday.
Harding was troubled by an ankle injury over the summer and it is not known at this stage if the midfielder has sustained the same problem.
“It’s the same ankle he injured before but we don’t know yet if it’s the same injury,” said Boothroyd.
“It was a nasty fall on what is a very hard pitch at Dagenham and so we just took him off as a precaution.
“We didn’t want to risk him and we’ll have a look at him on Wednesday.”